Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-27
FOLSOM,
a Town That is Destined to be a Grea
Manufacturing CITY,

manufacturing City.
One o. the OLDEST towns in the State. ane
one tina, has prospered the least, i:
the town Of Folsom, this county. Hel
people are slow, easy-going set, who are
satisfied with mail six days in the week,
when every other village in the State that
has half its population has Uncle Sam do
them postal service every day in the year,
and some of them half dozen times day.
FOLSOM Is queer town, and like all queer
toWns has history. Folsom, however
is not bad town. The people make
the community, and those of Folsom are
iaw-aplding and respectable. They have
their churches, in which they
BEND THE KNEE IN REVERENCE;
Their school-houses, in which their
children are given the rudiments of an
education, and to Offset these two, they
have twice as many saloons and beer shops.
1t has weekly paper, the Folsom TEE
grape, which is supposed to issue on Satur-
day, but generally gets around, if at all,
about next Wednesday," owing to how
Inc editor feels, who does all the writing.
composing and presswork himself, and is
his own devil. 1t is good paper. how
| ever, Tor 1t has continued story" and if
there is any one thing that goes to make
up good paper, it is continued story
AS before stated, Folsom is a sleepy town,
and why is it? is question often asked
Ihere Is no reason for it save only this
that like all mining towns, when the first
gold excitement was over, business de-
cllned, people moved away, and a town
once deserted, no matter what the cause of
desertion it is hard to again populate II
no matter what its advantages may be.
foisom is town OF some l 200 inhabitants
situated in the midst of one of the
FINEST AGRICULTURAL SECTIONS
In the State. 1t is on high bluff over
looking the American river, has perfect
sewerage, and her facilities for power for
manufacturing purposes are unrivaled on
the coast, and equal to any on the Merri-
mac. Folsom is sleepy town. Why is
1t? Because the manufacturer seeks the
city to make his wares, instead of the coun-
try, where he can do it more cheaply. To-
day the water running to waste by the
doors OF our Folsom neighbors has power
TO turn every manufacturing wheel in this
State. The cost of power in San Francisco
IS millions of dollars annually. Here 1t
runs to waste. The manufacturer who will
thrive; who will keep pace with the cheaper
labor OF the East; who will and can under
sell all his competitors, will be the one that
locates in the town of Folsom, and assists
in turning that sleepy hamlet into a busy,
thriving, humming manufacturing town.
Folsom was at one time the second town in
the State, Sacramento always being first.
1t was OF so much greater Importance than
San Francisco that
THE FIRST RAILROAD
Ever built in this State was to that then in
teresting and important point. The road
from Sacramento to Folsom was COM
menced in 1855, and completed February
3, 1856, when they had little Z" last spike
business of their own. 1t is new town,
from the fact that it has just been rebuilt |
having been almost totally destroyed by
fire some two years ago. 1t had no brew |
cry, but the beer that started the young in
cendiary on " foot" was imported from |
this city. 1t got in its work Just the same, |
however, and landed the young man be- |
hind the prison bars at Folsom He has |
no regrets over the matter. He saws the |
insurance companies rebuilt the town in |
better shape than it was before he burned |
It, and he regards himself as a public bene- |
factor. Some Folsom people are of the |
same opinion, and will some time in the |
sweet by ana by ask for a pardon for The |
young incendiary.
The main business street is well built, |
has large number of brick blocks, elegant
stores, hotels, and all that goes to make I'D
good country town. Folsom is the best
town in Sacramento county, has greater
population than any other, and no doubt
viii at some future time be the great man
ufacturing emporium of the Pacific coast,
occupying as she does the position on
river bank where millions of horse power
runs to waste daily, and which could be
utilized without having to carry the water
more than half mile in canals,